Little Miss Sunshine: The Shooting Script

10 best books like Little Miss Sunshine: The Shooting Script (Michael Arndt): Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting, In Bruges, American Beauty: The Shooting Script, Rushmore, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script, Good Will Hunting, Juno: The Shooting Script, Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay, Making Shapely Fiction

Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay

Author	Annie Proulx
ISBN	0743298152

Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece. Now the major motion picture "Brokeback Mountain" is being hailed as equally masterful, with performances that...

Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

Author	Robert McKee
ISBN	0060391685

Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress and putting major screenwriting careers back on track. Quincy Jones, Diane Keaton, Gloria Steinem, Julia Roberts, John Cleese and David Bowie are just a few of...

In Bruges

Author	Martin McDonagh
ISBN	0571242316

After a shooting in London goes hideously wrong, two hitmen, Ray and Ken, are sent to hide out in the strange, Gothic, medieval town of Bruges, Belgium, by their volatile and dangerous boss, Harry Waters.

While awaiting instructions from him as to what to do next, the pair attempt to deal both...

American Beauty: The Shooting Script

Author	Alan Ball
ISBN	1557044236

On a typical suburban street in a typical suburban town, there is an ordinary family living the American dream. But look closer. Lester Burnham's wife, Carolyn, regards him with contempt, his daughter, Jane, thinks he's a loser, and his boss is positioning him for the ax.

Captivated by Jane's...

Rushmore

Author	Wes Anderson
ISBN	0571200125

Rushmore is the second work from the team of Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson following the success of their debut screenplay and film Bottle Rocket. It is a refreshingly offbeat comedy about young Max Fish, a precocious pupil at a conservative private school. He is a live wire, a teenager full of madcap entrepreneurial...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script

Author	Charlie Kaufman
ISBN	1557046107

In this illuminating script book, Charlie Kaufman, the Academy Award®-nominated screenwriter of Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, shares the logistical challenges of writing Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in a fascinating interview.

Kaufman also provides commentary on...

Good Will Hunting

Author

Matt Damon

As director Gus Van Sant observes in the introduction to Matt Damon's and Ben Affleck's screenplay Good Will Hunting, the two young actors somewhat resemble the characters they play in the film: they're best friends, and Affleck (who plays Chuckie) habitually chauffeurs Damon (Will), who doesn't...

Juno: The Shooting Script

Author	Diablo Cody
ISBN	1557048029

Meet Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page), a confidently frank teenage girl who calls the shots with a nonchalant cool and an effortless attitude as she journeys through an emotional nine-month adventure into adulthood. Quick-witted and distinctively unique, Juno walks Dancing Elk High's halls to her own...

Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay

Author	Quentin Tarantino
ISBN	0786881046

Quentin Tarantino - director of "Reservoir Dogs" and writer of "True Romance" - won the Palme d'Or for best film at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival for "Pulp Fiction, " his unique vision of the underworld, starring John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Samuel Jackson, and Harvey Keitel. Taking his...

Making Shapely Fiction

Author

Jerome Stern

Here is a book about the craft of writing fiction that is thoroughly useful from the first to the last page—whether the reader is a beginner, a seasoned writer, or a teacher of writing. You will see how a work takes form and shape once you grasp the principles of momentum, tension, and immediacy. "Tension,"...